Curse me for not having my camera!

[Rustyt1953]

The original Spam recipe (1927) included chopped pork shoulder meat with ham, salt, water, sugar and sodium nitrite. This remained unchanged until 2009, when Hormel added potato starch in an effort to eliminate one of the product’s less attractive features: the gelatin layer created by the cooking process.

Hormel is approaching the 10 billionth can of Spam sold.

It seems a few folks besides me like it.

 

[oldbrownhat]

...It seems a few folks besides me like it.

Rumoured to be popular with Vikings too, although they tended to overcook it.

 

[lihpster]

Replace the word shrimp with the word spam.
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXKSDtLFBEU[/ame]

 

[Greyman50]

I’ll take shrimp over spam any time. Here we get some of the Best shrimp, the ousters so so.I do miss Chesapeake Bay oysters, not sure if any are there these days…

 

[SMSgt]

The green Vienna sausages make great catfish bait. Just look for the swollen cans.

 

[MRB1]

I use spam mixed with whole kernel corn for my live traps to catch racoons. Crows and buzzards like it also. Cheap and effective.

 

[kmyers]

We both love SPAM here and always have a fair number of cans around and is great for a quick meal. Slice it to the thickness you prefer, fry to your preference of crustiness and good to go.

 

[JohnRippert]

Bodies disappear
The morgues are all empty now
SPAM stock sky-rockets

SPAM--A mystery
I know! Pig skins and rat tails
in K-Y Jelly.

Pink fat in a can
Cholesterol for my heart
Have I a death wish?

What would a thread about Spam be without a couple of haikus?

I love the stuff, fried crisp with toast and mustard.

SPAM is Soylent Green is people!

 

[llowry61]

Someone mentioned the chipped beef. I had forgotten about that. Another dollar stretching meal my mom made. Some drop biscuits cut in half and my mom would just bring the saucepan brough to the table and place a nice dollop of the mixture over the biscuits. A lot of carbs in that meal, I can remember having it for lunch on cold winter days.

 

[CH4]

When opening up a can of Spam and seeing the slimy mystery meat slide out, I get the dry heaves! That said, I wonder how many restaurants and deli's use it as way to spice other dishes up.

I ate Spam about 55 years ago when it was used to mix in with egg salad. At the time I had no idea what it was, but it did taste OK. After learning more about it, I don't think I could eat it now under normal circumstances, but again, if used as a mixing spice, one would probably not even know what they were eating!

Do you eat hot dogs, sausage or bologna?
My friend, it’s all lips and sphincters.

 

[Yaworski]

When opening up a can of Spam and seeing the slimy mystery meat slide out,

It's not a mystery, it's ham, spiced ham.

If you can't handle gelatin packed meat, I'm wondering how you handled the wonder of childbirth.

 

[CH4]

It's not a mystery, it's ham, spiced ham.

If you can't handle gelatin packed meat, I'm wondering how you handled the wonder of childbirth.

^^^^^^^^^^

 

[llowry61]

It's not a mystery, it's ham, spiced ham.

If you can't handle gelatin packed meat, I'm wondering how you handled the wonder of childbirth.

Now that made me throw up in my mouth a little.

 

[Yaworski]

Now that made me throw up in my mouth a little.

There's a word . . .

 

[Greyman50]

Have not heard chipped beef called that in years, mostly S.O.S. IIRC had it a few times in basic and maybe my grandmother fixed it a time or 2. Of course back in late 50s early 60s “ things were better”.

 

[oldbrownhat]

Not familiar with chipped beef. Maybe not sold up here in Canuckistan. We do have corned beef, though.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Canned corned beef and sardines in mustard sauce are why mom kept needle nose pliers in the kitchen junk drawer.

 

[oldbrownhat]

Canned corned beef and sardines in mustard sauce are why mom kept needle nose pliers in the kitchen junk drawer.

LOL. When I was looking for an image of corned beef I came across a link on "how to open a tin of corned beef." Reminded me of a hysterically funny rambling sermon from Beyond the Fringe which contains the line: "Life – it's rather like opening a tin of sardines. We're all of us looking for the key!"

 

[Greyman50]

Have a small pair of needle nose pliers just for when the key breaks off my sardines. Love sardines in mustard and crackers.

 

[JohnRippert]

Someone mentioned the chipped beef. I had forgotten about that. Another dollar stretching meal my mom made. Some drop biscuits cut in half and my mom would just bring the saucepan brough to the table and place a nice dollop of the mixture over the biscuits. A lot of carbs in that meal, I can remember having it for lunch on cold winter days.

Stouffers makes creamed chipped beef that tastes a lot like the homemade that Mom used to cook up with Armour chipped beef in the tiny bottles. Kinda comfort food for me and Mom will also eat it every once in a while. Which is a plus because the list of things she likes to eat still gets shorter all the time with her dementia.